Death in botanists bay by Ferrars Elizabeth

Author:Ferrars, Elizabeth
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Anstey, Leicestershire: F. A. Thorpe
Published: 1989-01-05T16:00:00+00:00

then Peggie slipped past him and went to her room.

The rather egg-shaped top of Gordon's head, covered with neat ridges of hair, gave a twitch.

He said with a diffident smile to Joanna: "Poor Peg, she's taken it awfully hard, hasn't she? I think your way of taking it is simply wonderful. Of course Peg's a rather unbalanced, emotional type, isn't she? And she was frightfully fond of the old man. If it comes to that, we all were. Grand old boy—grand. Can't imagine what the place'll be like without him. Never seem the same again, I'm afraid. I mean, he'd got such a striking personality, and his knowledge—well, sometimes I used to feel that if only I knew as much as he did there'd really be nothing left for me to want. Appalling tragedy. The more one thinks about it the more one realises how appalling it is. Doesn't one?" His worried eyes, that seldom seemed to look at anything directly, snatched a glance at her face as if to see how she was responding.

She was not looking as if his words had moved her.

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